tapi'irapé

Old Tupi

tapi'irapé

Etymology

By surface analysis, tapi'ira (“tapir”) +‎ pé (“path”).

Compare Mbyá Guaraní tapi'i rape and Paraguayan Guaraní Mborevi Rape.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ta.piˌʔi.ɾaˈpɛ]

Noun

tapi'irapé (unpossessable)

1. (astronomy, hapax) Milky Way (broad band of diffuse white light, visible in the night sky)

Descendants

• → Brazilian Portuguese: Tapirapé

References

• anonymous author (1622) “Caminho de Santiago no ceu, uia lactea”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 1, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 64: “Tapijrape [Tapi'irapé]”
• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “tapi'irapé”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 463, column 1